“Cheap Wine and Poetry” Hugo House's monthly reading series has transformed this month, just for one night, into “Cheap Beer and Prose.” On the bill: Ryan Boudinot, Cienna Madrid, Mary Purdy and David Schmader. Charla Grenz hosts. Expect comedy.

7 p.m. at Richard Hugo House, free (donations encouraged). Beer is $1/cup.



For small press poetry junkies, though, the reading to see tonight is at Pilot Books. Portland poet and Octopus Books co-editor Zachary Schomburg is reading from his latest, Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean). With experimental lyric novelist Sandy Florian (Tree of No).

7 p.m. at Pilot Books, 219 Broadway E. (upstairs), free.